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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2008 - 07:25pm PT
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Another shout out. A bro just became a first time grandpa just a couple days ago. Baby got aspiration pneumonia and is in IC in a Moscow, Russia hospital. (Mom's Russian and will move here soon.)Baby's Dad, Gparents are all here in the States. :(
Please keep thoughts and prayers for this youngun' and Fam.
Dr. Rock, thanks for the Practical Info. Really important ! Great how the Taco inhabitants are so varied, but together it's like a team that provides different perspectives and help.
Yo Guys, That would be Hot Aire, hehehe. Thanks for the "Kind" for this gal, but if you spent any time with me you might want to lock me outta the house after awhile. :D
Now have a Grate Evening ! Peace, Good Thoughts, and Prayer.
Edit: Neebee, your writing is beautifully unique. One can walk in your shoes after they read your posts and books....and get great glimpes into life. Funny, just this a.m. I read Hebrews 6: 19......"we have this hope for an Anchor for the soul, firm and secure." Smiles, Gal
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2008 - 07:31pm PT
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hey there lynne.. say, we can be praying for my mom... as, last year, near about this time:
she lost her sister, my AUNTIE... and she has not quite got over it, due to the fact that:
my auntie was 79, and in perfect health, but FELL through the ice of her pond, while caring for her property and wild critters and her new dog (her beloved other dog, had already died)...
no one knows exactly how it happened, but she was due to go to a party that night and did not show---a friend came looking and saw her tracks to the pond... and the neighbor had heard the little dog barking most of the day...
it was a very terrible shock for my mom to learn this, of her beloved sister... they were going to share their 80th birthdays together---and each christmas, we would get the best cards and stories from her...
we can pray that my mom will get a "special delivery" note to her heart that will help her "file all this right-and-proper" with in her heart/soul, if you get my drift...
i love my mom---sure dont want her to hurt so bad, again, this year... :(
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dec 13, 2008 - 07:37pm PT
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боше мой!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2008 - 07:40pm PT
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hey there lynne:
not meaning to mess up the ol' thread/post here, but say, email me, when you can:
which book did you get to read:
jake's ranch and the second gate...
or...
steppingstones through jake's ranch, volume 3?
pray for me, i need time to write volume 4... it is near ready to "birth"--but i have not had time, due to oddness of earlier work hours for me...
awwwwwwwww, lynne, as always, it is a pleasure to hear from you---and sure do LOVE that hebrews verse....
see, it is the good lord's ever perfect timing... far above all wonders, it surely is...
*keep sparkling, here, lynne...
:)
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2008 - 07:43pm PT
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Jay, yo speak Russian too ? Translation ? or is it Greek orthodox which is what many Russian's are now ?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2008 - 07:46pm PT
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hey there jaybro... say, i had taught myself to read my bible in russian.... (couldnt speak it, due to shifing stress---and no one to practice with)... but i enjoyed it...
also, read it in a variety of languages, that i had taught myself to read---all gone now, since divorce... i gave near all of it away...
say--still got the russian bible though... i had only done this, as i saw the alphabet, in a dream one night... and it looked very special and pretty... then, i found it in a dictionary (the list of russion letters)... it was great fun to "crack the code" and this led me to start doing about 70 other languages---all gone now, sadly...
say---thanks for memories... our mom's mom was slovenian, and some of the words sounded similar, but were not in cyrilic alphabet...
:)
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dec 13, 2008 - 07:54pm PT
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Colloquial for, "my god" used in that sort of context.
Studied it in hs & College, spent the summer between my jr & Sr years of high school in Leningrad & Moscow. Pretty rusty these days, but it comes back if I'm patient; though living in Northern cal, I hear it every day.
More Russians are Russian orthodox, some Eastern. I never could understand old church slavonic...
The building where the Marmot™ store in Berkeley is today, used to be a Russian Orthodox church, went there for RO Easter services a couple of times in high school.
 o thread drift, again!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2008 - 08:09pm PT
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hey there jaybro... sure love just a tad of thread-drift... it is like the "winds over the seas" when done right----the vastness of the sea, STILL remains, and all, are STILL the richer, for it...
i sure loved hearing differnt languages... missed doing all that... but it was a treasure that i will hold dear, even as you do, with what you learned, too...
still got my russian bible all marked up, too, as to what i read... :)
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2008 - 08:10pm PT
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Gezzz, I been hanging with Anastasia too long, of course it's Russian Orthodox, Not Greek.
Well, it's winter and snow drifts alittle too around the old campfire. :D
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dec 13, 2008 - 08:33pm PT
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"winds over the seas" - that one is going in my journal.
language and how it affects how we think, tradition, etc could be a whole 'nother thread.
But I really appreciate the thought behind this one right now. Only a few more days to Beethoven's birthday. There's always hard times this time of year, but some respite in my own family; tonight my brother's family is coming over for dinner. My sister in law (born in Bejing, became a US citizen the day after the election) is heavy with daughter #2 due in May. Their daughter one, was born may 5 ("my Chinese american neice born on cinco de Mayo who learned the draddle song in her Sufi preschool"™) so these girls may have birthday friction.
a long way to say that though things are crazy, still there's a lot to be thankful for...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2008 - 08:36pm PT
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hey there jaybro... wow... thanks for this share from your heart...
may the birth go well...
cheers to you, dear jaybro!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 13, 2008 - 10:16pm PT
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Lynne,
Thanks for starting the topic. You're on our prayer list. My wife has become such a part of me that I can barely begin to imagine the grief of losing her, but we share the resurrection Hope, so our grief doesn't become despair. From what I've seen of your posts, you must, too. Thanks again.
John
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jbar
Ice climber
Russia with love.
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Dec 13, 2008 - 11:36pm PT
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Lynne,
Such a great post and such a thoughtful person you are. Isn't that what the holiday season is all about. It's sad 2 me that it seems like loved ones always pass during the holidays. I remember putting up the tree early one year and hoping on all hope that mine would get to experience Christmas before she left. I think it's wonderful that you are reaching out to those who truly need. The people suffering through the holidays without saying anything to anyone. Please include my Uncle Travis Dye and his mother in the prayer circle. His father passed away recently. They had a very close relationship and I'm also concerned for his mother as they had been married over 50 years. I'll scan through the posts and add my prayers to the community.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Dec 13, 2008 - 11:45pm PT
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Hey Lynne, let's go back to Crossroads...........maybe knott!
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Dec 14, 2008 - 12:04am PT
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You can't control "the winds over the seas", all you can do is adjust your sails.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2008 - 12:05am PT
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JEl and jbar, Thanks Guys.... Truly. Some day I hope to tell what a journey it has been this past year....for me the decision was to run from Jesus or into His arms. His arms are choice, all encompassing and always there. Best place to be.
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would be climbing or on a climbers forum....but here I am. I would never have chosen climbing.....Glad you all reached out to Lynnie. Climbing and The Forum have been the best grief processor's in the world for me.
I know I say this alot, but it is Just So True and Important to me.
Oh, yes, Billy.....we will go to the Crossroads again for breakfast or dinner.....I have a plan. : )))
EDIT: Great johnboy ..... just put that in my journal. Thanks Dude.
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jbar
Ice climber
Russia with love.
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Dec 14, 2008 - 12:18am PT
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Mmmm, crossroads. I love that place!
Lynne. I don't think we choose at all. I think it chooses us.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 14, 2008 - 12:25am PT
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hey there jbar... say, one year, back when i was married and my now-ex's father (my father in law) had cancer all through his body, well:
he died (on?? his birthday, i think it was, or the day before?) (the pearl harbor attack date)... well, we were setting up for christmas at this time...
we never had an artificial tree, but a neighbor gal gave us one--it looked real, and oddly, we did not know if we could go on and do this----yet, we did...
but in this case, we know he had made peice with jesus, and we, the kids, and his wife, and all the sons and daughter in laws, etc, (no one else) were there when he died, in the hospital room---we saw him go in peace, after he said yes to jesus wanting jesus to be his...
well--that peace stuck, and we had a nice christmas, as---being a family, and such (at that time) did the magic, even though we lost him (he had been a heavy alchoholic and to others, a "dirty drunk"---but not to us, even though he actually, sadly was dirty, far too many times---we loved him, and were used to his behaviour, though never acknowledge that his drinking times were good)...
it was oddly, too, the one christmas where i thought my then-husband, was takikng serious inner-thoughts to being a better man... seems it slid away, later, though... (like the so-called fox-hole promises of some, not all, folks, when the voice of death speaks to ones tuned-at-the-moment, ear)...
holidays, can sure do curious things, as to family situations, that is for sure...
*say, there, JEleazarian (am checking for spelling, will be back with an edit)--as to you and your wife, being so close, etc---and someday having to part, when that portion of life comes:
i wrote my last novel of the jake series, the conclusion, concerning this feeling between friends, and family, and between the man and woman relationship---as---to me, i feel that there when a guy and gal DO really find the mate/partner that is there beloved, parting can be a soul-wrenching trauma, as if part of yourself is lost... same as for twins...
i wanted folks to understand and see this, and hope it would help them...
thanks for your share, here...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 14, 2008 - 12:29am PT
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hey there johnboy... say, very sorry to hear about your best friend, and the sad loss....
i will be praying for him, and all...
you, being there for him, can help, in what ever way you can---even though it may not seem like it now... god bless...
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2008 - 12:35am PT
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I can't explain it in words, but yo right jbar, Indeed! How does it choose us....what is the magic that happens?
To walk up to a rock and say to the rock, "ok, how do I unlock the secret of sending you?" Cause even with help from yo friends you alone can make the climb. Hard Rock Magic.
Do you get out to the J. Tree ? We can all meet at the CRoads.
Say, anyone going out over the New Years....?
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